The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

BRIGHTON. !TUESDAY.—Their Majesties, though better to-day, have not tat - en out-door exercise. The Queen honoured Sir Martin. Archer Shee with another sitting for her portrait this morning.. Ills Majesty granted an audience to Major-General ,Sir Thomas M' Mahon. Earl Denbigh, Master of the Horse to the Queen, arrived. last night, and joined the Royal suite. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and all th e leading fashionables in the place, patronise the ball which takes place next Monday, in aid of the County Hospital. The l )uke of Richmond is expected to take the chair at the Chiches ter cattle show dinner to-morrow. _ . The Royal dinner party Monday evening, by invitation, was limited to Col., Mrs., and Miss Clitherow, Mr. Sergeant and Mrs. Adams, Capt. J. Scott, R.N., Col., Hon., Mrs., and Miss Murray, Major Campbell, Sir J. Nicol, and Col. Grey. W2DNESDAY.—The King and Queen, owing to the conti'auance of extremely boisterous weather, have not been seen in public to-day. This morning his Majesty sat to Mr. Newton for a miniature picture, and in the afternoon the Queen sat to the President of the Royal Academy for her portrait. Tlue Duchess of Gloucester, accompanied by the Coun tess .of Sheffield, drove out this morning on the Lewes road and. through Stanmer Park, the estate of the' Earl of Chichester. The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss Wynyard, took a carriage airing this morning before luncheon. The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp have engaged apartments at the Albion Hotel, where they are expected this evening. Lord George Lennox, M.P., has left the Albion on a visit to his brother at Goodwood. _ • ~Mr. Crawford, M.P. for the City, has returned to town. The only invited guests at the Royal dinner table yester day evening were the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Clithero. Captain Brown, R.N., the projector of the Pier, will ar rive iii a day or two, to superintend the repairs of that struct,are. Yesterday the Earl of Surrey, M.P., took . the chair at the Arundel cattle show dinner. Captain Pechell, M.P., was also. present. COURT CIRCULAR. ThEi,DAY.-A Deputation of the Geographical Society, compo i ed of Sir John Barrow, Captain Beaufort, R.N., Mr. Murchison, and the Secretary, waited on Lord Glenelg yes terday-, at tie Colonial Office, to solicit the sanction and co-op oration of his Majesty's Government in sending out to Australia two young officers of the army, Lieuts. Grey and Lusi aington, who have lately obtained the highest honours at the Military College at Sandhurst, and who have volunteered to exr lore in any part of the vast unknown continent of Aust alia, which may be thought most desirable towards increasing our knowledge of the interior of the country, and of thie prospect it offers for civilization. A. meeting of the Church Commission was held yesterday afternoon. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of ,London, Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Sir Herbert Jenner, and other Commissioners, were present. The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock. The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday, for his seat at Bowood Park, Wilts. The Judicial Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council sat yesterday. An appeal was heard from the Prerogative Court 'of Canterbury—Abraham Crawford, a legatee, named in the. will of John Bartholomew Hoare Curran, a Corn maater in the Royal Navy, late of Edinburgh, v. Eliza Oct avia Curran, otherwise Taylor, wife of the Rev. James Taylor, clerk, the natural and lawful sister of the deceased. The principal question before the Court was the domicile of die testator. After the case for the appellants had been cor.cluded, Sir Herbert Jenner gave judgment on the part of their Lordships, affirming the decree of the Court below, with costs. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Park, the Judge of the Prefogative Court, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. WEDNESDAY.-Mr. Baron Parke had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street. The Right Honourable Frankland Lewis, Mr. John Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. Nicholls, Poor Law Commissioners, visited Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Home-office. Lieutenant Grey and Lieutenant Lushington had an in terview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Hume, M.P., transacted business yesterday, at the Horne-office. Lord Glenelg visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street. The Judicial Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were—Lord Brough ham, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Vaughan, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. Mr. Baron Parke gave judgment on the part of their Lordships in an appeal from Bengal, heard at a former sit ting, " Meer Usd Oollah, also called Shah Chaman v. Mus sumat- Beeby Imaman," affirming the decree of the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, with costs. An appeal from Bombay, " Heirs of Roop Chund v. Purtal Chund Manikchund," was afterwards hear& and the Court then adjourned. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Capt. Fenwick and Major Ternpleman, in Cockspur-street, from the lonian Islands; Capt. Came, in Duke -street, from the Netherlands; Lieut.-Col. Hill, in Charles-street, from Paris ; Major and Mrs. Jeffries, in Park-street, from Dublin ; Capt. Le Blanc, in Piccadilly, from Paris; Lieut.-Colonel Moore, in Charles-street, from Paris; Major Kirkpatrick, in Chesterfield-street, from Dublin ; Lieut. Dodd, in Waterloo place, from the Mediterranean ; Major Boydell, in Conduit street, from Paris. , DEPARTURES. Capt. Griffin, for Portsmouth; Major Callender, for Man chester ; Col. and Mrs. Hastings, for. Bath ; Capt. A. Blair, for Plymouth ; Capt. Seton, for Liverpool ; Major R. Keith, for Canterbury ; Captain Dacie, for Newport , in the I s l e o f Wight ; Col. Miller, for Folkestone ; Major and Mrs. Bo denbam, for Cornwall; Col. and Mrs. Robinson, for Bath. The Duke of Devonshire had a select party at dinner Tuesday evening at Devonshire House. • Lord Wharncliffe, at the Wakefield dinner, on Monday, contradicted the statement that Lady Wharncliffe bad been appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen. The Earl of Orkney, and the Hon. Captain Fitz maurice, left Limmer's Hotel, Tuesday, for Taplow House, Bucks. Count d'Orsay, Count de Crony, Baron de Beher, Sir Robert Inglis, &c., paid their respects on Tuesday, and the preceding day, to Prince Polignac, at the Clarendon. He is awaiting the arrival of the Princess and family from Paris, to proceed to Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Cork have been enter taining the venerable Countess Dowager of Cork, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, and a select party, at Marston House, Somerset. The duties of Deputy Adjutant-General at head quarters, recently held by Major-General Sir Richard Jack son, are now performed by Lieutenant-Colonel Freeth, the . Assistant Quartermaster- General. It is understood the ap pointment will be discontinued. The French Ambassador gave a most sumptuous dinner on Sunday last, at Manchester House, to his Excel lency Prince Esterhazy and the Prince Nicholas, the Coun tess of Tankerville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord and Lady John Russell, Count de Grarnmont, Viscount Palmer ston, Baron Seckendortf, the Chevalier d'Aguilar, M. and Mde. Dedel, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Ellice, the Amcrican Minister, and Mrs. Stevenson. The.. Earl of Scarborough is entertaining a select party at Sandbeck Park, near Bawtry, Yorkshire. The Duke of Portland is entertaining Lord Seaford and a family circle, at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Hon. Mrs. Westenra entertained a large party at dinner yesterday, in Green-street. Sir Robert Peel is entertaining the Earl and Coun tess of Jersey, Mr. Yates and Lady Jane Peel, and many of the surrounding nobility and gentry, at Drayton Manor. The Right Baronet and his friends have had abundant sport, pheasant-shooting, on his well-stocked preserves. Lord Ashburton, the Hon. Wm. Bingham Baring, and the Hon. General Upton, are enjoying the sports of the field at the Grange, in Hampshire. The Marquis of Ely has arrived in Portman-square from Paris. His Lordship's eldest son, Lord Loftus, is at the family seat, in Fermanagh. Sir Francis and Lady LawleY arrived in Grosvenor square from their seat Middleton Park, Warwickshire. Th e Hon. Baronet is making great improvements on the large estates he inherited from his brother, the late Lord We n _ lock, at Weulock in Shropshire. Lord Thurlow, who came of ao.e only last year, and was united a few weeks since, at age only last year, and was united a few weeks since, at Whitchaven, to a lady named Hodgson, has, with his Lady, arrived at their seat, Ashfield Park, Suffolk, from the north. Lord Yarborough has purchased the Yard estate in the Isle of Wight, the property of the late T. W. Martin, Esq. Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothsav, and the Hon. Miss Nugent, who arc travelling in France, have arrived at Nantes, in the department of the Loire. The Duchess of Gordon and Miss Home have left . . Paris for Italy, where they will pass the winter.. • The Earl and Countess de Grey, and Captain and Lady Mary Vyner have left St. James's -square for Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, where his Lordship is constructing a new - mansion in a style of great magnificence. Madame Rossini, the wife of the celebrated com poser, narrowly escaped being killed by a citadine a few days sin ce . She was struck on the shoulder by the pole of the ,' ~~ ~~t L , :' art;, i ~! ~ lq"% . I. THE SITS, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1.836. CHURCH RATES. carriage, when in the act of crossing the boulevards, be tween the rue Louis-le-Grand and the rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. Her life is not in any danger, and the contusion will only require a few days' attention. The driver of the vehicle, whose negli g ence was very great, added to. his fault by grossly insulting Madame Rossini. No doubt he will be severely punished.—Paris Paper. The Marchioness of Clanricarde has left Howick Hall, where her Ladyship has been on a visit to the Earl and Countess Grey, for Welbeck Abbey. General Sablokoff left town yesterday to view the Royal Palace at Windsor, the Lord Chamberlain having forwarded an order to the Russian Embassy for the gallant officer to be conducted over the Castle. The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans leave Strat ton-street, on Saturday next, for Brighton, where the Countess of Guilford, Sir Francis and Lady Burdett, and other members of her Grace's family have already assem bled for the winter. _ _ The Earl of Minto has accepted the Presidentship of the Medical Supplemental Society, and the Hon. Capt. Elliott, C. 8., Lord of the Admiralty, Vice-President of the same institution. The Earl of Lichfield, who is a martyr to the gout, is again suffering from that complaint. His Lordship came to town from Shugborough to attend his official duties, and is sojourning at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will hold a Levee at Dublin Castle on the 15th instant, preparatory to the Irish Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons leaving the Irish Metropolis, to attend their duty in Parliament. - ... A fashionable club at the West end of the town is to be dissolved on the 6th of next month, for the purpose of being remodelled, which will take place immediately after it;dissolution. The new Reform Club, though not in existence more than a year, consists already of upwards of 1,000 Members. The Carlton Club-house in Pall-mall, having un dergone several alterations and additions, will be ready for' the reception of the Members against the Ist of January. It is stated that the late Miss Vaughan has be queathed the immense sum of 150,0001. to public charities, besides several large legacies. The paragraph was erro neous which stated that her landed property devolved on the children of Mr. Norton ; Mr. Vaughan, her brother, being still alive, is the deceased lady's heir ; and on his de mise, the heir-at-law is the ' present Lord Grantley. Mr. Vaughan has been confined to his bed for some months, but is now recovering from his severe illness. By the demise of Lady Sydney, relict of Lord Syd ney, who survived her husband the extraordinary period of 62 years, Thomas Phillips Cosby, Esq., gains a large ac cession of property. Prince Christian (Heir Presumptive to the Crown of Denmark) is expected at Paris in the course of January, and intends to remain there during the rest of the winter, after which he will go to England. This Prince, who is known for his taste in the arts and sciences, has undertaken the journey in order to examine the new monuments with which Paris has been enriched, and to observe in person the great commercial undertakings recently entered into by this country. General Sablokoff and suite arrived at the Sablo niere Hotel on Monday from Paris. It was the General, who is a Russian officer, that narrowly escaped drowning by attempting to cross from Boulogne to Dover in an open boat during the late gale. The General wore his undress uniform, by which he was mistaken for a courier. Lord Ward is forming an extensive domestic esta blishment, and is expected to leave town in a few days for Himley Hall, near Dudley, Warwickshire, where a nume rous party are invited to pass the Christmas holidays. Since the demise of the late Countess Howe the Noble Earl has lived in strict retirement ; but extensive orders have been given for alterations and improvements at the family estate at Gopsall. The Earl of Cadogan arrived on Tuesday at Queens bury House, Piccadilly. Holdernesse House, in Park-lane, is being put into a state of preparation for the arrival of the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry. The following notice has just been issued from the Custom House :—" Tea.—By Treasury letter, dated the 26th of November, and Customs' order, dated the Ist of December, 1836, Bohea tea, upon which the duty of Is. 6d. per lb. was paid on or before the Ist of July last, or which was delivered for payment under the Treasury minute of the 21st of June, and which still remains in the bonded warehouses, is allowed to be exported, and the duty to be, returned upon the actual exportation thereof." The following is the exportation of gold and silver coin and bullion for the past week, as made up from the Customs' returns :—Gold bars to Hamburg, 150 oz. ; gold coin to Rio Janeiro, 4440 z.; gold coin to the British West Indies, 3750 z. ; silver coin to Lisbon, 42,0000 z. The Englishman, Hawkins, who was arrested some time back as he was proceeding to London with the docu ments of the Ouvrard Loan for Don Carlos, and has been stopped again on his return from London, to the frontier, has just been shut up in the gendarmerie bar racks. He had first been sent to Bourdeaux. The winter fashionable season will commence the ensuinc , winter earlier than usual in the metropolis ; a great influx of company being expected next month, inconsequence of Parliament meeting in January. Friday night about twelve o'clock, as Mr. Byes, a surgeon, of Rayleigh, Essex, was returning home from South Bemfleet, with a pony and gig, on arriving at the entrance to Wheatley's-lane, on the borders of the town, he was stopped by three men, one of whom seized the reins, another stood at the pony's head, while a third ransacked his pockets, and robbed him of two 101. notes, and ten so vereigns. They instantly made off with their booty, and have not yet been heard of. During the raging of the late hurricane at Winches ter, part of a stack of chimneys fell on the Red Rover coach while changing horses. The horses becoming alarmed, started off, but were fortunately pulled tip by an outside passenger who held the reins, or the consequences might have proved very serious. Among the patents lately expired, there is one by a peruke maker, which is thus described in the specifica tion For a Forensic Wig, the curls whereof are con structed on a principle to supersede the necessity of friz zing, curling, or using hard pomatum, and for forming curls in a way not to be uncurled ; and also for the tails' of the wigs, not to require tying in dressing ; and further, the impossibility any person untying them.—The Penny Mechanic. , On Tuesday morning, about half-past 9 o'clock, the wife of a respectable tradesman named Hamilton, residing in High-street, Borough, put a period to her existence by nearly severing her head from her body with a razor. The poor woman had been in a state of insanity for some con siderable period. The two members for Glasgow, Lord William Ben tinck and Mr. Oswald, have been invited to a public din ner by their constituents. Great damage has been done in the eastern parts of Norfolk by the hurricane of last week. It extended from the eastern coast across to Thetford, Downham, &c. Near the former place, at Riddlesworth, the property of T. Thorn hill, Esq., suffered very materially, and on the lands nearly adjoining, and which belong to Sir W. Abdy, Bart., a barn of the largest size, and filled with barley, unthreshed, was completely laid prostrate, as well as a stable and cow-house, and at one time it was feared that even the dwelling-house and every other building would have been involved in the general ruin. Much devastation also took place in the vicinity of Norwich. The Pavillon Marsan and the Pavillon do Fiore, at the Tuileries, have been partly stripped , of their slates by the late high winds. The Rouen Journal states that all the plains in that country which border the river arc covered with water to the depth of three feet, and present the aspect of vast lakes. During the late hurricane the roof of the theatre at Dunkirk was so much damaged that it has been necessary to suspend the performances. The Calais and Ostend Journals state that the late hurricane has had no parallel within the last 30 years. According to a list published by the National, the subscription for the monument to be erected to the memory of M. Armand Carrel amounts at present to 14,109 f. Paulina has been added to the attractions of Jim Crow at the Adelphi, and the private boxes are nightly filled with fashionables. On Monday night the Duke of Devonshire, Prince Esterhazy, the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, Lord Lansdowne, with large parties were pre sent. Sir Edward and Lady Cast, and Lord Burghersh, occupied private boxes last evening. Mr. Jeffries, the actor, whose attempt at self-de struction has been noticed in the papers, expired yesterday morning, at four o'clock, at his lodgings in Vinegar -yard, Brydges-street, Covent-garden. During the last two days he lost the use of his sight. Between three and four o'clock Tuesday afternoon, during the absence of Mr. Andrews, of the Duke of York public-house, in the Hampstead-road, some thieves entered the house, and called for some gin and water. The bar maid being requested to get some water from the tap-room, went there, where she was detained by ono of the gang, whilst the rest wrenched open the desk, which is placed at the side of the bar, and took therefrom a small red decan ter-stand, containing ten sovereigns, and about a pound's worth of silver, with which they got clear off ; luckily, in their haste, overlooking a pocket-book, containing bank no t es and bills of exchange to the amoont of between 3001 . and 4001. A bag containing plate also escaped them. They had been seen lurking about the neighbourhood for some , days past, and had the appearance of respectable mechanics. Mr. Spall, the Church-rate Collector of this parish, al leges that he received a parcel on Thursday last, containing 15s. 6d. and a note, stating it to be sent for payment of our Church-rate. As a point of form, we declare that the payment has not been made, directly or indirectly, with our knowledge, pri vity, or consent. A fraud has been committed, and the question is—by whom ?In order to trace this out, we have requested of the collector permission to inspect the note and cover, and information of the messenger by whom it was conveyed. He declines to show us the note, except at a vestry meeting, and profeises not to know how it was brought. The author of the fraudulent transaction is al most evidently some person having access to the rate-books, as the sum alleged to have been sent,,is exactly the amount due on our four several assessments, two of which have re cently been altered. We hesitate not to declare, with the strongest ex pressions of our conviction, that the Churchwardens, or their well-known Church-rate abettors, have paid this rate or caused it to be paid. The Churchwardens dared not take proceedings against us—(one of them knows they dared not)—and they or their friends have adopted this mode of extricating them from their dilemma. Besides, a falsehood would cost nothing, and it might help in collecting the remainder. Accordingly we find, that-although Mr. Spall had never asked us for the rate, and the mode in which he received it would on that account alone be a subject to remark upon, he instantly applied to some of the pa rishioners who were known, like ourselves, to have declared they never would voluntarily pay another Church-rate, and told them, without an observation of any kind, that ours was paid. To the abolition of an impost so odious and so oppres sive as the Church-rate, our best exertions will never be wanting. The supporters of the injustice have forbidden that we shall have an opportunity of employing them for ourselves ; but they and the parishioners may be assured, that whatever aid we can tender to the good cause will be as freely and as heartily offered in the case of any other in dividual as in our own. J. R. & C. CHILDS. Bungay St. Mary, Dec. 5, 1836. We hereby offer a reward of Five Pounds for the dis covery of the Messenger who carried the parcel to Mr. Spall, and of the person who employed him. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 6. NATIONAL TRADES UNION,—An extraordinary meet. ing of this body was held on Sunday, Mr. F. O'CONNOR in the Chair. The question of Poor Laws for Ireland beine , introduced by a notice of motion given by Mr. Law less, Mr. O'Connell—amidst some opposition on the part of Mr. Staunton, who called the Learned Gentleman to order for discussing a question himself which he had pre viously prevented other Members from speaking on—said, in the course of a lengthened address, that he would solicit information from Lord Morpeth to-morrow, as to the course Government intended to pursue relative to a compulsory provision for the poor. " Gentlemen (continued Mr. O'Con nell) are very fond of declaiiining about the spirit and the humanity of poor laws ; but I doubt very much if poor laws are not calculated to make the people poorer, and have the effect of making them continue in a state of poverty—at least such has ben their result in every country in Europe where they have been tried.--(Cries of" No, no I") Oh, but I say, yes, yes, and I will say now upon this subject that I have not been fairly treated. I have for ever the opinions of Mr. Evans thrown in my teeth. Why, I say there is not on the face of the earth existing any where, I don't care where, such an anomaly as the situation of the Irish nation presents ; and it can be accounted for in no other way but by p4litical causes, and it is not poor laws which the people of Ireland want to remedy their situation." Towards the conclusion of his speech, he expressed his re gret that he had grown warm with the gentleman who bad been so eager to take the lead in bringing on a discussion of the poor law question. He wished that gentlemen who caused interruptions had bottled up their resentment until Monday week, when a motion on poor laws for Ireland would be brought forward. Until then he hoped he would be allowed the benefit of his own opinion. Some resolu tions, the nature of which will be learned from the follow ing passage in Mr. O'Connell's speech, "-are (said be) you perceive, ht present, before the meeting three se parate propositions, two of which you have agreed to, and the third now remains for your vote. The first relates to secret and illegal combinations that have been formed by the enemies of your country, in order to do you a mischief. The second relates to the registry in Dublin ; and the third to the effects of combination, which the law allows, if kept within the letter of the law, and which has resulted in effects we have often deplored." With respect to the con templated inquiry into combination, let me remind you, said Mr. O'Connell—" I remember an assassination committed in the noon-day upon a ship-carpenter, who worked, as it was considered, against the rules of the body. The assas sination was committed in the noon-day, and no one was ever punished for its perpetration.—(Hear, hear.) One cannot be surprised if the vengeance of Heaven fell upon the members of a trade who encouraged such a murder. —(Hear.) Now, whatever be the result of your inquiries, remember this, that blood has stained the streets of Dub lin, and that that murder was the result of combination." Mr. O'Connell then went into the history of his country's trade, and inferred from the opposition made by the Engli s h manufacturers of 1786, headed by the father of Sir Robert Peel, to certain resolutions of reciprocity proposed by the Irish Legislature, that Sir Robert was the hereditary enemy of Ireland. "He would not," said Mr. O'Connell, be his father's son if he were not the enemy of Ireland. Peel, then being a principal manufacturer in England, led on that opposition, and defeated that good which Irelan d might have obtained from her own Parliament." Our space will not permit us to follow the Hon. Member th rou g h his ad dress—we must content ourselves with the following ex tract :—" Many a battle has been fought for Ireland, and many a struggle on her behalf has been unsuccessful—her sons were defeated because there was no universal combi nation amongst them. I was the means of extending a combination amongst Irishmen in the open day, and in the presence of all honest men, and I trust with the approba tion of my God. It was such a combination of strength as Ireland never had before, and the consequence was, that like a mountain torrent, accumulating in its course, it be came resistless, and bore down all the barriers, and swept away all the impediments which bigotry placed in its way, and Catholic emancipation triumphed over all. The here ditary enemy of Ireland, Peel, and the bitter enemy of Ire land, because he was Irish, and wafted on the blood of the Irish to high station, Wellington of Waterloo, had to give way—the dexterity of the one and the military glory of the other shrunk before my combination—and I now stand here (you may call it vanity)—(Cheers, and cries of " No, no")—I now stand here the victor of Peel and Wellington. —(Cheers.) And what do I ask now? I never asked any man to peril his life—l never asked any man to peril his fortune—l never asked any man to commit a violation of the law, and Heaven forbid I should ever ask any man to commit the slightest violation of morality.—(Hear.) I be long to a creed of which one of the great leading principles is, tat the greatest possible good i not permitted to be obtained, if it be the result of the slightest immorality which the mind can conceive—that, in fact, the means can never sanctify the end—l belong to that calumniated creed, which distinctly announces, through its saints and doctors, that you cannot, and ought not, purchase the kingdom of heaven it self by the slightest venial sin. I never, then, have asked of any man to violate, in the least &awe, the law of God or of man ; but within the law of God, and according to the law of man, I do call upon persons who can now serve their country to do so." After some observations on the duty of men to fight the Constitutional battle at the registry, Mr. O'Connell concluded amid continued cheering. The reso lution then passed, and the meeting adjourned. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. GREENE V. HOGAN.-Mr. Sergeant Jackson on Satur day informed the Court that he had discovered fresh authorities relating to the case, which would he, likely to guide their Lordships on the decision they were about to make. The Chief Baron said he would be obliged to the Learned Sergeant to hand him up any new authorities which he might have discovered ; at the same time the Court was not just then going to make any decision on the case. Mr. O'Connell was present, and the Chief Baron asked him if he had any motion to make, and he said he .had not any of that class which he could then bring before the Court. An affectionate address.was presented by the inhabitants of Kilmore to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, on the occasion of his visit to Carton, the seat ,of the Duke of Leinster. The Drogheda Journal states that his Excellency is ex pected on a visit to Sir. William and Lady Maria Somer ville on Wednesday next, where the Noble Earl will remain until Saturday. A. public meeting is to be held at Duleek to-morrow, for the purpose of addressing his Excellency on the occasion of his visit to that neighbourhood. DUNGARVAN.--A most ridiculous address from John M. Galwey appears in the last Evening Post. The address could only come from a wag or a fool. The writer pro mises, if returned, to bring in a Bill for the settlement of the Tithe question—to enclose the Cunnigar—to raise Dungarvan above Cork and Belfast:--to build lighthouses for the fishermen—and to print a paper exclusively for their use.— Waterford Chronicle. Badminton Park, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort, will be very gay during the Christmas holidays, a distin guished party having been invited by his Grace to his hosp . table mansion, the 12th. So little dread of at A enemy prevails in the coun try at present that the inNtibitt tuts are quietly cultivating their lands, and attending, it ould seem, theatrical PP, per formances. Some Thespian colt). have opened the temple, and made a debut at Columbia unit." - r favourable auspices. The army remains stationary, and sot. iewhat impatient to be engaged in more active duty, in wh. ;ell, notwithstanding threats of formidable preparations o n th e part of their ene mies, we suspect will be disappointed , as time will disclose. We a long time since prophesied that not Another hostile gun would be fired in Texas, and as yet we have lost no faith in our prophetic gift as to this particular. - The paper containing the proceedings of their newly or ganized Congress, furnish no matter of great public inte rest, the members as yet being engagi.sd in regulating the minutiae of matters of order and etiquitte, prior to enter ing upon their more serious deliberations.. Santa Anna is still in confinement, which is rumoured to .be not so rigid as cf late, there being on foot some mcastn es preparatory to his release. Should it be true, and he is to be released, Texas should require something in the way of a transom, to enable her to discharge some of the heavy liabilities incur red by her belligerent operations. The vacancy as C o mmander-in-Chief, occasioned by the election of General Houston to; the Presidency, will be filled, it is said, by one of the three candidates, Generals Thomas, Rusk, Green, or Felix Houston. From all that we can hear and' read of the military ope ratiOns of the Texians in their governmental concerns, we are induced to believe that they enter upon their new and untried career with as much of the requisite ability and honest sincerity'of purpose as any people ever did, and with sufficient to enable them to take their independent stand among the sovereignties of the earth. The rumoured marriage between Viscount H— and Miss T—, has been prevented, it is said, by some difference respecting settlements ; we, know not how true this may be. Sir Walter Carew, Bart., and G. Fortescue, Esq., both of very good families in Devonshire, are about to be married to two fair sisters, considered among the belles of that county. A marriage is said to be on the tapis between Miss Sotheby, daughter of the late Admiral Sotheby, and niece to the Dowager Lady de Clifford, and the Rev. Mr. Estcourt. A new carriage and harness, and a set of horses, have been shipped for Rotterdam, for the Right Hon. Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, our Ambassador at the Hague, whose establishment at the Dutch Court is.now on the shale of an Ambassador. Sir Edward is nearly related, by marriage, to Sir Herbert Taylor, whose lady was a Miss Disbrowe. • Edward Conroy, Esq., has been appointed, by the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Assistant Registrar General to the Registrar General (Thomas H. Lister, Esq.), and E. Mann, Esq., Chief Clerk of the Department. Lord Hill honoured Madame Tussaud's exhibition with a visit on Tuesday, and was pleased to express his approbation. Mr. Robinson, of Vauxhall, had his annual concert, on Tuesday evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms. It was well attended. Miss Woodyatt, Mrs. Pearce, with Misses Gooch, Addison, and Maria B. Hawes, and Messrs. Hobbs, Wilson (of Drury-lane), Hawes, Fitzwilliam, Atkins, Bellamy, &c., volunteered their services, and in the course of the evening sang several favourite songs, glees, &c. Mr. Addington, nephew to Viscount Sidmouth, and late Minister to the Court of Spain, and his lady, daughter of T. G. Escourt, M.P., have left Richmond Lodge, on a tour. Lord Bethel Codrington has arrived in Park-lane from Doddington Castle, Leicestershire, to be present at the marriage of her son to the daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. Mr. Corbett, M.P. for Lincolnshire, will lead to the altar, on Monday next, Lady Mary Beauclerk, the only un married sister of the Duke of St. Alban's. The ceremony will take place at Sir Montagu Cholmondeley's seat, Easton Hall, near Grantham. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland will remain at Raby Castle until the first week in January, when their Graces will return to St. James's for the season. The Noble Duke possesses large estates in Shropshire, for the southern division of which county, his son, the Earl of Darlington, is representative, but he has no seat in the county. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are accompanied in their visit to Baron's-court by their two daughters, the Ladies Georgiana and Rachel Russell, the latter a young lady of ten years of age. Lord Alexander Russell, their Graces' youngest youngest son, has arrived in Belgrave square, from Harrow School, for the recess. The Earl of Sefton entertained a select party at din ner on Tuesday evening in Arlington-street.. • General Sebastiani transacted business yesterday at the Board of Trade. Lord Henry Russell, lately promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, is appointed to the Hastings, the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sir Wm. Hall Gage, in the Tagus. Miss Jane Porter has been making a tour with some antiquarian friends through most of the cathedral and castled towns in England, and passes the winter in the ancient city of Chester. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left Ches terfield House yesterday for Bretby Park, Leicestershire. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE.— This morning, about half-past nine o'clock, as some labourers were excavating upon the site of the ruins of the late calami tous fire at Fenning's Wharf, London Bridge, a great portion of the arch of an old sewer, wyighing upwards of thirty tons, fell, burying four poor Irishmen underneath. Every exertion was made to extricate the unfortunate men. After the labour of an hour, the bricks and earth were removed, and one of the sufferers found quite dead, another nearly lifeless, and the two others very dangerously bruised, The survivors were carried to St. Thomas's Hospital, but little hopes are entertained of their recovery. In every Ministerial crisis Marshal Gerard supports the appointment of Soult ; and his position as the King's friend, as Alarshal and Chancellor of the Legion of Honour; gives weight to his words. Marshal Gerard is convinced that the restoration of Don Carlos will prove fatal to the tranquillity of the south of France, and that Marshal Soult alone is capable of making head against the storm. Marshal Gerard has addressed a written memoir on this subject to the King.—Journal du Commerce. An inquest was last night held at the White Hart, Clifton-street, Finsbury-market, before Mr. Baker, coroner for the Tower Hamlets, on the body of Ann Jane Hancock, who lost her life at the fire which took place on Monday night, at the house of Mr. Hancock (her father) chymist, of No. 47, Clifton-street. The jury returned from viewing the body, which presented a most shocking spectacle. [lt will be recollected that a woman is in custody, committed from Worship-street, for having wilfully set the house on fire, which has caused great excitement in the neighbour hood.] The jury, from the examination of the rooms in which the fire took place, said that the case was one of a most serious nature. The coroner said, that when he came to the inquest he thought it was one of an ordinary nature ; but, from what they had seen, it became so serious that he did not wish to go further that night. Any one who saw the rooms must see that the fire was not accidental, and he thought it most advisable to adjourn the inquest until Sa turday morning. After several observations from different jurors, it was agreed that the inquest should be adjourned to ten o'clock on Saturday morning, in order to procure the attendance of the necessary witnesses. RELEASE OF CAPTAIN FOLGER.—On Tuesday last Noah Pease Folger, formerly a Captain in the South Sea trade, was released from Newgate, after an imprison ment of three years and nine months. It will be recollected, that in April, 1833, Captain Folger shot Mr. W. Mellish, the contractor and shipowner, on the Royal Exchange, one of whose vessels he had formerly commanded. The wound did not prove fathl, although the life of Mr. Mellish was for some time despaired of. Folger was committed for the capital offence by Sir Peter Laurie, then Lord Mayor, but on his trial a plea of insanity was set up, and the jury ac quitted him on those grounds, leaving him to be dealt with by the Crown as an insane person. However insane he might have been at the time he shot Mr. Mellish, he never betrayed any symptoms of derangement after his trial, as a proof of which, he was sent from Newgate to the County. Lunatic Asylum, the superintendent of which sent him back again,-on the ground that the establishment was not intended for the care of sane persons. After the death of Mr. Mel lish, which occurred about a year after he was shot by Cap tain Folger, every effort was made by the. friends of the opri soner to procure his release, on the ground that the object of his hatred, the man who he a lways alleged had oppressed and ill used him, being no more, there was ny danger to so ciety in his being sot at liberty. The Sheriff, Mr. Salomons, and Alderman Lainson, and Mr. Pelham, the solicitor w ho ger, also used their exertion s conducted the defence o f Fol for his release, but without success, owing, it is said, to op position on the par t of Sir P eter Laurie, who had some apprehension of personal injury, owing to the mode of in terrogation adopted by him when Folger was under exami nation before him, and which was subsequently protested against by the le g al advisers of the prisoner. „sheriffs lately brought brought the subject of Captain Folg' cr's incarceration Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newg s on and Duke , and ate, in Newgate before the notice of his Majesty's Government, and with success : on - a representation being made to the King, he was pleased to grant a free pardon, on condition of Captain Folger leaving England within 30 days, and en teringviepardon reached Newgate on into his own recognizanccs to keep the peace during the remainder of his life. Tuesday, and the doors of the prison were thrown open to Captain Folger, who, after expressing his warmest thanks to the Governor for his uniform kindness towards him, left the gaol. • Captain Folger is an American by birth, but the greatest part of his life was spent in the English merchant. service. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HOLLAND. FLUSHING, Nov. 30.—A terrible hurricane yesterday caused very great damage, among which, we mention the following : The Chieftain steam-boat, Captain Pritchard, from Ham burg for London, with a cargo of different goods, having, in consequence of the rough weather, broken the principal axis of its machine, and taken refuge in this road, was driven from its anchors, and got on the bank of Caloot, where it lies high, in a dangerous situation, making much water, and without hopes of getting off. The Hanoverian Rof Barwina, Captain Valk, frOm Riga to Antwerp, with linseed, is also driven on the bank of Caloot, not so high as the steam-boat, but in danger. The Hanoverian Rof Verwuchieng, from Riga to Ant.. werp, with linseed, forced, like the preceding, to put into Rammekerus, is totally lost, the ship in pieces, and scat tered along the coast. Part of the cargo was thrown on shore. ...._. The Hanoverian Rof Aurora, Captain Keel, bound to Rotterdam, has lost its bowsprit. Several other vessels are lost, or driven on shore. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, DEC. I.—The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting yesterday, discussed and adopted the project of law relative to the exportation of bones. The Chamber, when it was going to proceed to the final vote,- was found not sufficiently numerous, and the vote was deferred till the Morlay. At the beginning of the sitting, M. Judot deposed the report on the Budget of Ways and Means. The Chair was decided that it should be placed on the Order of the day, as soon as it is printed, and be distributed among the Members. BRUSSELS, DEc. s.—The King arrived at Antwerp from Lacken on the 3d, in the afternoon. The storm of the 29th ult. did considerable damage to the camp at Be vegoo. The duty imposed by the new law on the exportation of bones is 20 francs per 1,000 kilogrammes (2,000 lbs). The import is 20 centimes per 1,000 kilogrammes. N.B.— The importation of sheep's trotters is prohibited. M. Ro denbach said that the manufacturers of the country had so much need of bones that it was necessary to take steps to prevent their exportation. M. Lebeau is said to be appointed Governor of East Flanders, in the room of Count Vilain XIV., who • has re signed. Some of the men belonging to the fishing-boats which were dispersed in the late storm have arrived at Blankenburg. Five boats, after having severely suffered, were driven on shore near Flushing ; one of them had lost its crew, consisting of'a father and three sons. The men were treated with the greatest humanity by the Dutch. BELGIAN i. UNDS—Baussus, Dec. 6 i Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. l 5OO Loan of Thirty Millions... .............. Loan of City, 1632,4 per Cent. lOl Society of Commerce, 44.;per Cent. l4l Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 129% —Brussels Papers, Dec. 7. GERMANY. (From the Odessa Journal.) OnEsss., Nov. 11.—Several persons who have this year visited ,the coasts of Mingrelia, and the camp of General Williamanoff at Sudjuk Kali in Circassia, have read with astonishment in several foreign papers—among others, in one English journal—the news that the taking of Sudjuk Kali had cost the Russians ten thousand, or, according to others, 15,000, men. What shall the readers think of the credibility of these Journals, and of the goodness of the sources whence they derive such information, when they have had an opportunity of seeing the very great camp of General Williamanoff, and convinced themselves that neither resistance nor bloodshed was required for him to fix him self there, and that there was not even an enemy in arms. With respect to the pretended fortress which the Russians were obliged to take, there is no such fortress in existence ; for the only remote fort, which was formerly possessed not by the Circassians, but by the Turks, has been abandoned since the peace, and demolished according to the treaties. SMYRNA, Nov. 6.—Letters from Alexandria to 19th October, say that Mehemet Ali intended to send another expedition to Arabia. Five thousand Turks and. Arabs, and 2,000 Moors, had been assembled by the Governor of Cairo. But it was thought that Ibrahim Pacha would dis suade his father from this expedition.- .Frankfort Papers, Dec. 4. FRONTIERS OF POLAND, NOV. 24.—Nothing is known at Warsaw of the intention of sending Prussian troops to take part in the reviews in Russia next spring, which some journals have spoken of. It seems rather improbable, be cause the Emperor has ordered, it seems, the troops sta tioned in th 6 kingdom of Poland to be assembled as soon as the season permits, when he will come in person to in spect them, and to have some defects remedied which he has observed in that portion of the army. VIENNA, Nov. 28.—The day after to-morrow being St. Andrew's Day, :there will be a chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which will be very splendid. Several fo reign members of the order have already arrived here. V'e learn from Trieste that the new steam-boat built -.—... .. -... there to afford a more speedy communication with the Levant, will leave that port in December, on its first voyage to Athens. It is thought that it will visit the places in the Archipelago. Letters from Jassy say that Princess Stourdza intends to pay a visit to Vienna. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 28. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Rank Shares l O6 —Allowing Zeitung, Dec. 3. AMERICA. (From the New York Papers received to the 17th ult.) RELIEF OF THE MONEY MARKET. The Boston Atlas of Monday last says :—We are autho rised to state, which we do with the greatest satisfaction, that the Banks of this city have united in an arrangement by which they will use their best efforts to afford all the re lief in their power to the mercantile community under the existing severe pressure in the money-market. We under stand that they have agreed to discount to an amount which cannot fail to effect this important and highly desireable object. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. The Harrisbury Chronicle publishes official returns from twepty-six counties in Pennsylvania—the whole number of ficially heard from. The result in these counties are : For the Van Buren Electors Ditto Whig ditto Majority for Van Buren ...... 182 HOMER, Nov. 19, 1836.—Dear Sir,—l hasten to inform you the result of the election in our county for electors : Harrison majorities.—Homer, 295 ; Cortlandville, 166 ; Truxton, 47 ; and Marathon, 37—Total 545. Van Buren majorities.—Scott, 1 ; Preble, 8 ; Virgil, 1 ; Salon, 125 ; Freetown, 32 ; Cincinnatus, 70 ; Willet, 20 —Total, 257. THE PROBABLE RESULT.—The following calculation was made six months since, and so far has proved correct. We yet hope to take New Jersey from Van Buren and give it to Harrison. We have hopes, too, of Rhode Island. For the Whig candidates.—Vermont, 7 ; Massachusetts, 14 ; Delaware, 3 ; Maryland, 10 ; North Carolina, 15 ; South Carolina, 11 ; Georgia, 11 ; Alabama, 7 ; Missis sippi, 4 ; Louisiana, 5 ; Tennessee, 15 ; Kentucky, 15 ; Ohio, 21 ; Indiana, 9—Total, 147. For Van Buren.—Maine, 10 ; New Hampshire, 8 ; Connecticut, 8 ; Rhode Island, 4 ; New York, 42 ; New Jersey, 8 ; Pennsylvania, 30 ; Virginia, 23 ; Illinois, 5 ; Missouri, 4 ; Arkansas, 3—Total, 144. (From the National Intclligencer.) M. Pageot, Charge d'Affaires from France to the United States, with his family, accompanied by M. Saligny and M. Montholon, who reached New York a few days ago in the packet-ship Sylvie de Grasse, has arrived in this city. This is the same gentleman, our readers will recollect, who was Secretary to the French Legation, and for a time Charge d'Affaires, before the late difference between the United States and France, now so happily terminated. FROM FLORIDA. Extract of a letter, dated Key West, Oct. 20.—" The Indians made their appearance a short time since on Key Tavinier, where they surprised the schooner Mary, Captain Bethell, burnt the vessel, and slightly wounded some of the crew before they could make their escape. Lieut. Powell, of the United States sloop of war Vandalia, which is now lying in our port, has gone in pursuit of them with 170 men under his command, accompanied by the United States cutter Washington, and eight row boats. By the last accounts the expedition had reached Indian Key, and were making preparations to scour the country." DEPARTURE OF THE MEXICAN ENVOY. Signor Gorostiza has embarked for Mexico, with all the members Of the legation. Previous to his departure he addressed to our Government an exposition of his rea sons for taking this step, from which we give the following extract : "Unhappily the result has not been, what the under signed expressed. The note of Mr. Dickens has left him no hope. 'The explanations, moreover, which have been given him in the name of the President, have shown how little can be looked for, by Mexico, from the United States, since her most sacred rights, her most important interests, are thus sacrificed to the shadow of an imaginary danger. Mexico is wronged and insulted as a measure of precaution. " Under such painful circumstances, the undersigned would be wanting in his duty, as the representative of Mexico, if he did not avail himself of the only m ethod left him, to express the pain he feels at the wrongs done his country. On his own responsibility, therefore, he declares his mission from this moment terminated." LATEST FROM TEXAS. By the schooner Pennsylvania, yesterday , from Velasco , Texas, we are in possession of dates from that country to Wit•= AY~r ~~ ~4' ~J~' j . .. ,iw ~i~ ,~ ) L REFORM DINNER AT PERSHO - I TO THE MEMBERS OF EAST WOW" TERSHIRE. i57:174 , 1 ,;44 :4 14 (From the Worcester Herald.) On Tuesday last T. H. Cookes, Esq., and E. Hold and, Esq., dined by invitation at the Bell Inn, Pershore, with their constituents in the Evesham and Pershore district. The dinner took place in the Assombly Room, where ta bles were laid out for the accommodation of more than 150, besides which number forty dined in other parts of the house. C. E. Hanford, ' Esq., presided on the occa sion ; he was supported on his right by T. H. Cesdces, Esq., Colonel Davies, and C. H. Hehb, Esq., the M:ayor of Worcester ; and on his left sat E. Holland, Esq., John Martin, Esq., late M.P. for Tewkesbury, and M. An nes ley, Esq. James Ashwin, Esq., officiated as Vice-Presi dent, supported on his right by William Acton, Esq., and on his left by the Rev. J. Foley, of Pershore, and many other respectable gentlemen residing in the Evesham and Pershore district. The cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts given and received wish much enthusiasm, The' CHAIRMAN said that the ner.t toast afforded him great pleasure to anizounce—he meant " The People, the true, the legitimate source of power."--(Drunk with three time three, and tremendous cheers.) The CHAIRMAN—He would propose to them " The health of their Representatives, Mr. Cookes and Mr. Hol land."-4Great cheering.) Mr. COOSES rose to reply, and was received with the most enthusiastic applause. At the time of the last dis solution of Parliament, their opponents, the Tories, held forth to the farmer the delusive hopes that they could re lieve their distresses, and vaunted that they were the only real friends of the farmers.—(Hear.) They had told the farmer that the Administration of Sir R o bert Peel could and would afford them relief; and now, be would inquire, how had that promise been fulfilled? A Committee had been granted, which bad sat for five or six ,months, and having received a body of evidence to which there was no parallel, the Committee had not ventured to give an opinion thereon.—(Hear, hear.) They had sent the evidenoe abroad to the country, without a single comment ; as much as to say, "Here it is; we w ill not co mmit ourselves on the question ; we will leave it open for consideration another day."—(Hear, hear.) It was for the farmer, then, to judge whether those who had been so loud in their professions, and who held out such hopes to thorn only to disappoint, were their real friends.—(Cries of " No, no, they are not?) There was another question connected with agriculture to which he would allude, he meant the Tithe Act. He thought that those who had seen its working would agree with him that, take it all in all, it was likely to prove satis factory. It was with much pleasure that he could congratulate his constituents belonging to the Dissenting con:triunity upon the redress of part of their grievances. There were still, how ever, other claims loudly calling for redress, and which, on the principle of truth and justice, ought to be granted to the Dissenters, and if they were long withheld it would not, he believed, be the fault of their representatives.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Member then alluded to the Irish Municipal Bill, which he lamented had been thrown out by the House of Lords.—(Hear.) It was admitted by the Lords that they had no objection to the principle of the Bill as applied to England and Scotland, but that the Irish were unable to manage their own affairs. They had been called aliens in religion, in blood, and in language, and he who bad the audacity to utter such disgraceful sentiments was himself an alien.—(Cries of " Shame, shame !") Such language No plied to the Irish was disgraceful. [The Hon. Member concluded a very lengthened address amid the warmest _ greetings of the company.] Mr. HOLLAND then rose and addressed the meeting as follows :—Gentlemen, the destructive policy of the Lo:rds is not of the standing of one session only ; it has existed since the passing of the Reform Bill. It is a dangerous policy, and one to be risked alone under the guidance of some reckless leader, to whom property is nothing, to whom character is nothing, and who, having nothing to lose, is ready to be hired and to give the aid of his eloquence and high talents in the cause, regardless of the conse quences:—(Cheers.) How fortunate arc the Lords in the choice of Lord Lyndhurst as their leader ! Either you must put aside the Reform Bill, and make the House of Commons as subservient as it before was to the House of Lords, or the latter must be reformed so as to adapt it to the improved state of the former.--(Cheers, and cries of " Bravo.") I need not ask you which plan is to be adopted, inasmuch, as the first, being a retrograde step is civilization, would be somewhat difficult to accomplish. You have therefore no choice ; to create harmony, to avoid future collision between the two chambers, the House of Lords must be refernied.—(Loud and repeated cheers.) I look upon the House of Lords as the safety-valve to that good boiler the House of Commons, without which the boiler would burst, and the Constitution would be de stroyed ; for its proper working in this capacity I think it should be hereditary, and that it should while at work be irresponsible. But I should like to see limited the time of its working upon each particular question. Any evil arising from hereditary peerage would in a great measure be remedied by abolishing the power of voting by proxy. If the House of Lords had the power to suspend only, and not altogether to baffle and destroy, a measure sent up to it by the Commons (say for a term of years, or that a measure should become law if sent up to it a third or fourth time), this power of suspension would give the nation time to reconsider its nature, and thus would be avoided all in considerate haste. Now, as to whether such a reform of the Lords would be constitutional ? I think it would. Gentlemen, the time cannot be very far distant when this question of a Reform of the House of Lords will be dis cussed in Parliament ; and it is right that your representa tives should put you in full possession of their sentiments upon this subject.—(Hear.) Let me, however, before I sit down, impress upon you the necessity of our being united.—( Cheers.) Reformers are of so many grades of feeling, that although all arc travelling the same course, their num bers are scattered, and weakened by being spread wide. Our enemies are old practised tacticians, and attempt to take advantage of this. It is necessary for us to have a rallying point, and we cannot do better than rally round the present Liberal Ministers.--(Cheers.) Lord Melbourne • has pledged himself to do justice to Ireland ; let us help him to redeem that pledge. Let those like myself, who would advance further than his Lordship in the work of Reform, for a time hold back. Ireland demands it—lre land calls upon us to save her from the horrors of a civil war. [Mr. Holland sat down amid loud and long-continued cheers.] The CHAIRM A N said it afforded him much gratification in proposing the next toast, which was—" Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers." (This toast was drank with three times three, amid the most deafening applause.) The C H AIRMAN said the next toast he had to propose to them was—" The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese, and the Clergy of all denominations." The Rev. J. FoLEY returned thanks. It was the abuses of the Church —those abuses which had naturally crept in by the lapse of time, and which the Tories, when they had. the power, never attempted to remove—it was these of which he was the unflinching opponent.—(Cheers.) Did they think that he wished to see the Church upheld by sinecures, plu ralities, non-residence, and such-like e normities ?—(Cheers.) He wished to see the Church made more generally and ex tensively useful.—(Hear.) He wished to see it rooted in the affections of all classes of the people.-4 Loud cheers.) He should only say, that he was a Reformer on conviction —he was born a Tory, and educated in a Tory school, and a Tory university ; but firmly persuaded that Tory prin ciples were unsuited to the age in which they lived—con vinced, also, that these institutions, whether in Church or State, could not be preserved by the maintenance of abuses —(Cheers)—seeing, from his own experience, that the Tories would not attempt to remove any of those abuses, he became a Reformer ; and unless the Tories would bring forward some arguments far more onvi cncing than any he had yet heard from them to induce him to change his sentiments, he s hould continue a Reformer to the end of the chapter.—(Loud applause.) He thanked them heartily for the kind attention they had given to tho se ob s ervations which he felt called upon to make in self-d e f ence ; and wishing them fe l t ca and happiness, he heartily wished, at the same time, success in any future con test in which they m i g ht be engaged in defence of their po litical principles.—(Continued cheering.) Mr. Foley's health was the n p ro p osed, and drunk with enthusiasm. Shortly afte r eleven o'clock Mr. H ANFORD left the chair, and the company separated. JOST-STOCK BANKS.—The following is the re sult of the returns with reference to these banks, which m ay be collected from the report of the committee :—There is a list given of 89 banks, of which 80 have been esta blished in the present year, and special returns respecting 62 of these banks. Of these, '2 . 2 have ❑o branches or offices of agency ; and of the remainder 37 have 283 branches and sub-branches among them, besides agencies and sub-agencies. The amount of nominal capital of the 62 banks is stated at 40,950,000/., in 1,031,450 shares of from Si. to 1,0001. in nominal value. The capital paid up on 654,661 shares issued, amounted to 6,590,545/. •2s. ad. The number of shares not issued was 376,789, represent ing a portion of the above capital of 40,950,0001., amount ing to 11,137,4101. Seven banks only, out of the 62, had issued their full number of shares. The dividends have varied much, some banks paying 3 per cent., and others 4,5, 6,7 i, 8, 81, 10, 11, 121, and 16 per cent.—Times. We regret to hear that in a house just beyond Ilea vitree two children were killed by the falling in of a chimney during the storm on Tuesday.—Wedern Luminary. According to a list published by the National, the subscription for the monument to• be erected to the me mory of M. Armand Carrel a mounts at present to 14,109 f (about 5641.) tp , or ki ) 10 , f,' do ts' fr °lll Pe• tha t la y•ar y ' 11001 ow" 'lllO